[7th Portal] Cara Mia Addio Encore

[jumpsuited_rat]

Action - 850 Goldberg

[Chell opens the door to find 3 packages of varying sizes, one small and rather flat, one medium-large one, and one quite large one of a suspicious size.

She opens the small one first to find her clothes from Aperture. She doesn't plan on wearing them again, but they could come in handy later, you never know. The next one contains her portal gun. She hasn't seen many places that portals could be placed on, but if there were any, it'd be very useful.

Finally, Chell turns to the last one. It's about as tall as a turret, so that's what's got her worried. It's a bit wider, though, so she's not sure what to make of that. She circles the box, knocking on it to see if she can get any information that way.

She assumes that if it was a turret, the gun portion would be facing towards the door, so she tips the box over so that if there was a turret inside, it'd now be facing the ground instead.

Chell pries the box open and discovers that not only is it a turret, but it's the oversized turret that she had seen a few times. It had never attacked her or anyone else that she saw, it just somehow used the elevator and oversaw some of the other turrets when they were making music.

It's an odd choice of something to be returned to her, so she shrugs, just leaves it where it is, and goes back inside the house.

She sets her clothes on the Companion Cube, and when she turns around, the turret is standing in front of her. Chell dives beside the couch and peers around at the turret. The turret doesn't make any movements, it doesn't even have a red laser sight for targeting, it just stands there, staring blankly.

Chell waves her hand at the turret, and it still doesn't move. She shrugs to herself and stands up, walking past it and over to the curtains. She turns her back to the turret and pulls off a long strip of cloth and goes to work using it as a strap for the portal gun. She doesn't want to leave it in the house alone with Cliff and carrying it with her hands would get old, so this was a nice compromise.

When she turns around to head for the door, once more the turret stands staring at her. Chell frowns at it and decides that if anyone would know what's going on, it'd be GLaDOS.

She leaves the house and heads down the street.]

Action - Around Town - The streets on the way to 1450 Mitchell Road

[If you're walking down the street or peeking out a window, you may see Chell being followed by a large turret. You never see the turret move, however, if you take your eyes off of it for even a second, it'll suddenly be further down the street and closer to Chell.]

Action - 1450 Mitchell Road

[Chell finally arrives at GLaDOS' house and starts banging on the door, she's got a frustrated expression on her face as she does so.

The turret is waiting quietly behind her and may not be seen at first glance.]

Comments

[bye_to_yer_head]

She didn't seem t' mind. On the bright side they're downright stupid and easy to get t' do what you want. The downside is they're even here at all.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods and writes down, "I prefer to try and avoid them, myself." There had been a few times when she had been forced to interact with them, and it had not been pleasant.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Probably fer th' best. Too bad we can't just round them all up and put them somewhere we don't 'ave to deal with them anymore. Probably make a whole lot of people in town happy to never see them again.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks this over for a few moments, then nods and writes down, "We could stuff them all in a building and let them sort out the details."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

They'd probably get along just fine and start their own town.

Say, that's not a bad idea, let's send 'em all off to go make their own town, and leave us be.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell smirks, then writes down, "All we need to do is find someplace for them to go, and then we're set."

[bye_to_yer_head]

Well this can't be th' only town around here. Though I tried t' walk down the road a piece an' ya just end up coming back on Mayfield from the other side. Almost like ya walked around the entire world.

But Scout said somethin' once about another town out there. West-somethin'erather

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods and quickly writes, "I do the same thing every day. It seems that all there is is Mayfield. I was given information from Westport, I copied it into this notebook."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Yeah, that's th' place. Wonder how we go about gettin' there. Though I don't much want t' find it. That's where all th' hazmat blokes came from.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks this over before writing down, "I'm not sure, I just know what I've read about it.

Hazmat blokes?"]

[bye_to_yer_head]

There were these blokes in Hazmat suits who came 'bout half a year ago. Sprayed this chemical stuff everywhere an' killed a bunch of people. Turned 'em into mutants too.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell winces at this, frowning, "Not sure how I missed that."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Pretty sure they were from that other town. Maybe sendin' th' drones there would calm everything down.

Or make it a whole mess worse.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell mulls this over, nodding, then writes down, "It's possible, considering how things are here, it may not hurt anything..."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Maybe we'll work on this once ya sort out where yer little robotic friend came from, and how to keep him from following you. He can't stay in that tree forever.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods and writes down, "Sounds like a good plan."

After several moments, she writes down below that, "Wonder how far I can get away from it, before it'd appear behind me again."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Well, we're a good few blocks. Let's turn a corner and see what it does when we're out of sight.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell quickly scribbles down, "Okay. Here's hoping it stays in the tree."

She had a feeling it wouldn't, based on her previous experiences with the turret, but it hadn't been trapped before, so maybe she'd get lucky this time.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

*He walked around the corner, getting a good ways down the block before glancing back.*

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell followed him, walking with purpose. As soon as they couldn't see the turret anymore, it silently popped in behind Chell.

After several feet, she looked behind her and discovered that her follower had returned.

Chell rolls her eyes and shakes her head in annoyance.

The turret was nearly as tenacious as she was.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Hn.

Well, I suppose the bright side is it ain't doing anything. 'cept being a pest.

Maybe we oughtta take it to th' shop an' take it apart.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks this over, then writes down, "That could work, we'll have to knock it over before we can open it up."

Most turrets were stuffed to the brim with bullets and they were very good at dispensing them. She's surprised that this one hasn't decided to shoot her in the back yet.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Uh. If ya say so.

Why?

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell looks serious as she carefully writes, "Usually they shoot anything that moves. They deactivate when knocked over."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

That's an odd way t' make a sentry. Why can't it shoot when it's on its side?